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Solving Vectors Word Problem: Ground Velocity of Airplane

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Can anyone solve this integral for spring mass oscillation?

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Slipping Ladder Angular Acceleration

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What is the acceleration of a falling object from a balloon?

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Changing wavelength with changing tension

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Finding time when you have initial velocity and position

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Max Collector Current in Transistor Circuits

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3 part question about angular/tangential acceleration

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Calculating Momentum and Mass after a Collision

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2D Relative Velocity regarding boats

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Find the current through the inductor

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How Does a Proton Behave in a Magnetic Field?

  • Jeremy Higgins
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How to find deceleration to stop collision with moving body?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Rotational Motion of a baseball

  • manuel60
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Electric Dipole Energy Outside Sphere

  • Jake 7174
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Expectation Value of Hamiltonian with Superposition

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What is the Intensity of Light 12m from a Bulb Shining in All Directions?

  • Rumplestiltskin
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What is the relationship between resistors in a circuit?

  • Matt O
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How Far Does a Hamster Run in Its Wheel in One Night?

  • katie beisel
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Friction on an incline and velocity

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Angular acceleration, tangential acceleration

  • katie beisel
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Calculating Final Velocity Using Force-Displacement Graph

  • df102015
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Calculating Expected Values for 3D Harmonic Oscillator Wave Function

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Verify Ψ is solution of quantum oscillator using H operator

  • ElectricEel1
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Velocity of propagation of an EM field in vacuum

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What Determines the Coefficient of Restitution in a Two-Object Collision?

  • Yoruichi
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How to Understand Position Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics?

  • ognik
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How to determine the sign of currents in complex circuits?

  • KShah423
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Gauss's Law and Electric Field Question.

  • sanhuy
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Calculate Free Fall Time for 10.0m w/ g=1/6 Earth's g

  • Balsam
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How Do You Calculate the Electric Field at the Origin with Three Charges?

  • StrSpeed
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How fast to spin object hanging by thread to break thread

  • Nikki1357
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Simple Energy Question based on SHM

  • RJLiberator
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Friction, centripetal force, gravity, and velocity

  • katie beisel
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Projectile motion motorcycle question

  • kelvin56484984
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Speed and Energy (Someone check my work please)

  • GalacticSnipes
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Magnitude of static friction force

  • pinkpistachios
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How Much Power is Needed to Move an Elevator at 4.50 m/s?

  • GalacticSnipes
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Two football players running toward each other collision time

  • Balsam
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Force required to negate vertical acceleration with friction

  • Obliv
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Find the frequency of the cylinder's vertical vibration

  • CGI
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How to find the distance between two decelerating trains?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Calculating Minimal Distance between Two Protons in Motion

  • kuokius
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Charge Distribution on Metal Plate: How to Find Surface Charge Density?

  • kuokius
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Why Does the Solution Use (T2 - T1) * R for Net Torque?

  • RoboNerd
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Projectile Motion calculation problem

  • x2017
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What is the gravitational potential energy of the box relative to the floor?

  • nicolehoskins
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Electrostatics and nuclear force problem

  • hawkeye1029
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Mass hangs in equilibrium on a spring (oscillation)(MCQ)

  • slymme
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Pendulum problem using Lagrangian

  • Andy123
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How Does Fluid Viscosity Affect Spring Oscillation Period?

  • SirR3D
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Kinetic Energy of neutron and electron

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College physics problem -- Find gravitational acceleration

  • Brij Patel
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How to derive the equation with velocity and acceleration?

  • Eclair_de_XII
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Find the time for the string to break

  • TheSwedeAtLarge
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Finding Your Way Home: Vector Components and Trigonometry

  • j doe
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Need help finding initial velocity

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Celsius to Kelvin conversion problem (Kinetic theory)

  • Forco
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Gaussian surface (infinitely long cylindrical conductor)

  • Kaleem
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A question about common emitter amplifier

  • Harrison G
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Concrete Block Incline acceleration question

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How Do Charges and Voltages Distribute in a Circuit with Multiple Capacitors?

  • vizakenjack
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Relativistic velocity addition with car and baseball

  • cosmos42
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Can't understand 2 pulley 3 masses problem

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Phase difference after passing through liquid and glass

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What is the path of a ball thrown between two children in a moving car?

  • cosmos42
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Archived Efficiency Calculation of 10-kVA Transformer at 0.85 Power Factor Lagging

  • graygoh
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Solving for Air Speed in an Air Duct

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Calculating Relativistic Energy and Momentum of a Proton

  • cosmos42
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Irreversible adiabatic process - is the entropy change zero?

  • Ortanul
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Calculate River Width: Boat Width Problem

  • jasonchiang97
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EPE and particle collision (grade 12)

  • krbs
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Finding temperature coefficient of resistivity of the alloy

  • Searay330
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Determine the number of particles transmitted by S-G analyzer

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Time in air for gold ball projectile at 52 m/s and 50 degrees

  • Krookwood
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Finding the Mass of a Helicopter

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Local Sidereal Time, RA of a star

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Gravitational Fields - Spacecraft approaching planet

  • Physics Dad
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How to Calculate Energy and Work in a Stirling Cycle?

  • mathpialpha
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Deriving the Formula for 2D Motion with Constant Acceleration

  • kelvin56484984
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What is the Conversion Rate from Curie to Becquerel?

  • Drizzy
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How to find the temperature of the cold reservoir?

  • PhysicsstudentNOR
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Finding displacement through velocity and deceleration

  • Grace204
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Can someone help me with an analytical dynamics exercise?

  • Doney Felipe MEjia
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Find Magnification of Reflecting Telescope

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Calculate the required current flow in the suspended wire

  • Taiyen
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Calculating Electric Field of Two Charged Particles on the y-axis

  • Carrie
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Find the interaction potential energy

  • ajaysabarish
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Change in Velocity after a Collision

  • x2017
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Modeling vehicle lift in uphill front end collision

  • Heidi Henkel
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Calculating Energy of Th-232 Nuclear Reaction

  • Drizzy
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Find the position of a pendulum as a function of time?

  • Camphi
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Why is Force of Bubble Given by 2(2πR)σs?

  • werson tan
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Finding distance traveled up a ramp

  • x2017
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Need help computing force of a defibrillator

  • Quinn Pochekailo
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Voltage drop across voltage divider

  • Frankrules
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Calculate the rms speed of one nitrogen molecule at 27 Celcius

  • KUphysstudent
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Velocity after collision and Kinetic Energy.

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